<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64743]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our girls were in awe of their pitcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our girls were in awe of their pitcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment to all citizens alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would make a lovely corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17047]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would make a lovely corpse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12700]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15053]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35465]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64901]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37702]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53823]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rome! my country! city of the soul! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rome! my country! city of the soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41577]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52743]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought to be a passage from some recognized theological work set for translation into vulgar English -- just like doing Latin prose. Failure on this part should mean failure on the whole exam. It is absolutely disgraceful that we expect missionaries to the Bantus to learn Bantu, but never ask whether our missionaries to the Americans or English can speak American or English. Any fool can write learned language: the vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727]]></link><description><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen him use it well, and I think it's something I can definitely use, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen him use it well, and I think it's something I can definitely use,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President means chief servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48155]]></link><description><![CDATA[President means chief servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at sites like You-Tube and, for that matter, a multitude of other online options as just that ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at sites like You-Tube and, for that matter, a multitude of other online options as just that ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â new options that we look to embrace. We look to embrace it but not at the expense of infringing copyright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23019]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39468]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour  Assures not another. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour  Assures not another. The will and the power   Are diverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11316</guid></item></channel></rss>